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Great thread
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It almost smells like early spring in the Verde Valley. Manzanita is blooming, Rosemary and Pansies too.
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Love the Rex Chapman tweets.
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Selfishly, it is nice to be outside grilling.
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Frybry02 wrote:Selfishly, it is nice to be outside grilling.
Just fired up the grill for burgers and brats ourselves.
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Frybry02 wrote:Selfishly, it is nice to be outside grilling.
Selfishly, I wish you were outside my apartment grilling for me.
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Good News comes easy from the dude married to Emily Blunt.
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dovecanyoncat wrote:Good News comes easy from the dude married to Emily Blunt.
I wonder what a bad day for Krasinksi is like?
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This is my daughter's high school chemistry teacher (and colleague for the last 4 months) getting the PAC-12 Teacher of the Year Award, presented by Adia Barnes:

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Frybry02 wrote:
dovecanyoncat wrote:Good News comes easy from the dude married to Emily Blunt.
I wonder what a bad day for Krasinksi is like?

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Such a cool story
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I love this guy so much.
Of the 12 coaches, Rush picked the one whose fans have the deepest passion, the longest memories, the greatest lung capacity and … did I mention deep passion?
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Just wanted to post that this has been probably the best weeks of the last year for me

-After not hardly working much this last year due to the Pandemic, my work is finally starting to come back. I'm working this week, next week and several other jobs are starting to get booked.
- My oldest son and I both got vaccinated. My son has been especially pessimistic of things returning to "normal" and he's been in a much better mental state since. It's a relief to see him smile.
- Had the most social weekend in over a year this past weekend, hanging out with several friends who have all been vaccinated.
- Finalizing actual summer vacation plans!
- And the Cat's just made the Final 4!

Here's to more weeks like this!

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Good stuff. Glad to hear about the job front!

I was able to see my friend up in PHX last weekend and got a bunch of baby stuff at IKEA too. Almost felt like a normal weekend. It feels like I'm on the verge of living a "regular" life again. 38 days till I'm totally vaccinated. I can't wait to have a meal sitting in a restaurant again (before 7 pm of course now that I'll have a baby!).
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Of the 12 coaches, Rush picked the one whose fans have the deepest passion, the longest memories, the greatest lung capacity and … did I mention deep passion?
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Nice. Would be cool for one day the Santa Cruz and San Pedro Rivers in southern AZ to be flowing year round again like they used to and bring back the otters and fish and beavers that used to be in them.
i was going to put the ua/asu records here...but i forgot what they were.

i'll just go with fuck asu.
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ASUHATER! wrote: Wed May 26, 2021 9:59 am Nice. Would be cool for one day the Santa Cruz and San Pedro Rivers in southern AZ to be flowing year round again like they used to and bring back the otters and fish and beavers that used to be in them.
Wasn't Tucson going to use CAP water to try and bring them back at one time? Then finish downtown with a riverwalk with cafes before replenishing the aquifer?

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Today is a good day!

Chicat is back in the harness.
Coach K is on the way out.
BetaCat took a hard turn in the barrel and went wee wee wee all the way home.
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Harrison Arkansas in the rearview mirror.

There was a billboard.

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Buh bye bitches
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We have baby birds newly born on our terrace. My wife is giddy, giddy as the mother House Finch herself. It's the little things.
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dovecanyoncat wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 4:20 pm We have baby birds newly born on our terrace. My wife is giddy, giddy as the mother House Finch herself. It's the little things.
Love the baby birds. We have some baby doves in the beams of our front patio. Mom is very alert when we come & go
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84Cat wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 4:23 pm
dovecanyoncat wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 4:20 pm We have baby birds newly born on our terrace. My wife is giddy, giddy as the mother House Finch herself. It's the little things.
Love the baby birds. We have some baby doves in the beams of our front patio. Mom is very alert when we come & go
Our experience with doves is a mixed bag. We had them at both our Tucson houses and it seemed always that they came to a sad demise either through predation from woodpeckers or just general empty-headed negligence by the parents.
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A pair of doves grew up the last few months in our fig tree outside my home office.
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Me and 3 old college buddies are heading to Tucson for homecoming this year.

We haven’t all been together in one place in probably 35 years. Rented a nice house in the foothills so doing this in style.

Really excited about this reunion.
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Good job Audi! And FU Wheel of Fortune.
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“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

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She played college ball. Good form.
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Of the 12 coaches, Rush picked the one whose fans have the deepest passion, the longest memories, the greatest lung capacity and … did I mention deep passion?
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What the hell is a bear bile farm?
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UAEebs86 wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2022 10:03 am What the hell is a bear bile farm?
For Chinese medicine

If you really want to find out more

https://www.animalsasia.org/intl/end-be ... -2017.html
https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsa ... e-farming/
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Thanks 84. Not sure if I do want to learn more. :cry:
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If there's a market for douche bile we could put Trump in a cage.
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My kids got me to buy them new Fortnite skins by telling me it was to raise money for Ukraine. I thought they were conning me but gave them the money anyway because I appreciated their cleverness.
Of the 12 coaches, Rush picked the one whose fans have the deepest passion, the longest memories, the greatest lung capacity and … did I mention deep passion?
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Living these impatient and flighty times, longevity is a very underappreciated virtue.

Congrats to this guy:
And I said, ‘That last thing is what you can't get...Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.’ Jack Kerouac, On The Road
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Still only getting 4 weeks vacation too! Thats awesome
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Of the 12 coaches, Rush picked the one whose fans have the deepest passion, the longest memories, the greatest lung capacity and … did I mention deep passion?
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